Welfare Quotes

• The greatest danger to the liberal vision are facts about the consequences of liberalism itself and the laws, policies, and ways of life that the left has spawned. That the black family, which survived centuries of slavery and generations of discrimination, has disintegrated in the wake of the liberal welfare states is only one example.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Vision
  • Slavery
  • Danger

• Young people today are being robbed. Of their rights. Of their freedom. Of their dignity. Of their futures. The culprits? My generation and our predecessors, who either created or failed to stop the world straddling engine of theft, degradation, manipulation, and social control we call the welfare state.

  

  Tom G. Palmer
  • World
  • Today
  • Social

• It was difficult to exercise him properly, because he was so big that even if I ran—and I was for ever running, in my zeal for his welfare,—he still, to keep up with me, needed only to walk, and if I paused for any reason, such as getting my breath or having to tie my shoelace, instantly he lay down.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Running
  • Reason
  • Exercise

• Rachell believed passionately in the value of beauty. If she was pressed for time she considered the filling of her bowl with flowers more important for her family's welfare than the making of a cake for tea. On this point her family entirely disagreed with her.

  

  Elizabeth Goudge
  • Family
  • Value
  • Beauty

• They too, are created by the same loving hand of God which Created us...It is our duty to Protect Them and to promote their well-being.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Animal
  • Duty
  • Protect

• A man who is influenced by the polls or is afraid to make decisions which make him unpopular is not a man to represent the welfare of the country.

  

  Harry S Truman
  • Decisions
  • Welfare

• The welfare state has always been judged by its good intentions, rather than its bad results.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Results
  • Intention
  • Judged

• I believe that the camera has aided animal welfare by giving a platform and a vision for bringing awareness to the most important animal-welfare issues worldwide.

  

  Katie Cleary
  • Animal
  • Camera
  • Welfare

• Whenever a car would come down the road, my mum would tell us to hide 'or else the welfare man would take you away.'

  

  Evonne Goolagong Cawley
  • Road
  • Welfare
  • Hide

• The biggest and most deadly 'tax' rate on the poor comes from a loss of various welfare state benefits - food stamps, housing subsidies and the like - if their income goes up.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Poor
  • Loss
  • Benefits

• More Americans are enjoying the freedom of independence from the chains of welfare

  

  William Reynolds Archer, Jr.
  • Independence
  • Welfare
  • Chains

• Welfare states on both sides of the Atlantic have discovered that largesse to losers does not reduce their hostility to society, but only increases it. Far from producing gratitude, generosity is seen as an admission of guilt, and the reparations as inadequate compensations for injustices - leading to worsening behavior by the recipients.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Gratitude
  • Behavior
  • Generosity

• Hey, hey, the working man, the working man like me. I ain't never been on welfare, that's one place I won't be.

  

  Merle Haggard
  • Work
  • Men
  • Welfare

• The welfare state is an enemy of private property. The excessive taxation used to support the welfare state is extremely dangerous.

  

  Charles A. Murray
  • Support
  • Enemy
  • Dangerous

• Our teachers are responsible for our children's welfare for the six or eight hours they are at school and we need to know without question that their safety will be paramount on the minds of teachers, faculty and volunteers.

  

  Mike Fitzpatrick
  • Mind
  • School
  • Teacher

• The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Politics
  • Ego
  • States

• The best form of welfare for the troops is first-rate training.

  

  Erwin Rommel
  • Training
  • Welfare
  • Troops

• The more welfare, the more crime.

  

  James Cook
  • Crime
  • Welfare

• It's one thing to have a president with whose politics you disagree; it's another to have a president who doesn't even seem to care about your welfare.

  

  Eva Moskowitz
  • Politics
  • President
  • Welfare

• Times are tough but they are tough because the government is trying to do the right thing, whether on public service reform, education, health, anti-social behaviour and welfare, or in counter-terrorism.

  

  Tony Blair
  • Trying
  • Social
  • Tough

• Even Bill Clinton ran on my program of "workfare instead of welfare." Of which I was the first American politician, starting in 1989, who brought that up. And that helped him get elected.

  

  David Duke
  • Politician
  • Welfare

• Put the welfare of your troops above your own. They eat before you eat; they sleep before you sleep.

  

  Hal Moore
  • Welfare
  • Troops

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